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Working on labor : essays in honor of Jan Lucassen /
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- Title
- Working on labor : essays in honor of Jan Lucassen /
- Author/Creator
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Lucassen, Leo.
Linden, Marcel van der, 1952-
- Publisher
- Brill
- Publisher Date
- 2012.
- Description
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This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor. The essays deal with five major themes: the production of specific commodities or services (diamonds, indigo, cigarettes, mail delivery by road runners); occupational groups (informal street vendors, prostitutes, soldiers, white-collar workers in the Dutch East India Company, VOC); geographical and social mobility (career opportunities on non-Dutch officers in the VOC, immigration into early-modern Holland; the influence of migrants on labor productivity; income differentials as migration incentives); contexts of labor relations (late medieval labor laws, subsistence labor and female paid labor, Russian peasant-migrant laborers, diverging political trajectories of cane-sugar industries); and the origins of labor-history libraries and archives.
- Note
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Description based upon print version of record.
- Subject
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Working class--History.
Labor--History.
Lucassen, Jan.
- Library URL
- 991009826869806306
